McCOMB v. HOMEWORKERS' HANDICRAFT COOPERATIVE

No. 5888.

176 F.2d 633 (1949)

McCOMB v. HOMEWORKERS' HANDICRAFT COOPERATIVE et al.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 22, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bessie Margolin, Asst. Solicitor, U. S. Department of Labor, Washington, D. C. (William S. Tyson, Solicitor, William A. Lowe and Helen Grundstein, all of Washington, D. C., Attorneys, and Beverley R. Worrell, Regional Attorney, U. S. Department of Labor, Birmingham, Ala., on the brief), for appellant.

Thornton H. Brooks, of Greensboro, N. Car., Robert G. Cabell, of Richmond, Va., and Morris E. Lasker, New York City (Brooks, McLendon, Brim & Holderness, of Greensboro, N. Car., and Battle, Fowler, Neaman, Stokes & Kheel, New York City, on the brief), for appellees.

Before PARKER, Chief Judge, and SOPER, and DOBIE, Circuit Judges.


PARKER, Chief Judge:

This is an appeal by the Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division from adverse decrees in a suit instituted against the Millhiser Bag Company, the Chase Bag Company and the Homeworkers Handicraft Cooperative, to restrain violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, 52 Stat. 1060, 29 U.S.C.A. § 201 et seq. The complaint alleged that Millhiser and Chase were bag manufacturers who employed homeworkers on a piece work basis to insert...

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